ChieftheCef
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What is the feeling you should be able to feel at any time? How do you pursue it?
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Dharmatics! What is the feeling the yogi's pursue?
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Yogis generally don't pursue "feelings" per se. They pursue dispassion, equanimity, and detachment.
ChieftheCef
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Right... You don't know what I'm talking about. Someone might though. If you know the answer, whether you are a follower of dharmic religion or not.
I hope you find the answer you're looking for.
ChieftheCef
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Sorry, look. Just realize that you don't know everything.I hope you find the answer you're looking for.
Are you referring to Right Effort?
"And what, monks, is right effort? (i) There is the case where a monk generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the non-arising of evil, unskillful qualities that have not yet arisen. (ii) He generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the abandonment of evil, unskillful qualities that have arisen. (iii) He generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the arising of skillful qualities that have not yet arisen. (iv) He generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the maintenance, non-confusion, increase, plenitude, development, & culmination of skillful qualities that have arisen: This, monks, is called right effort.
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ChieftheCef
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No it's some spiritual sensation I'm after.
Here's an article I wrote about the Jhanas some years ago. I had to put it into a compressed file because it is too large for the forum's server to process.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Mayko. Right?
You don't pursue it. You actually dismiss it and let It go on its own accord
like a big fluffy cloud.
What's Mayko?
Clinging to meditative perception distortions (seeing lights, hearing things, sensations, strange thoughts, speaking in tongues, etc.,) and mistaking it for Kensho (equanimity of mind.)
The only other word that comes to mind that @ChieftheCef might be looking for is "ecstatic."
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It's a phenomenon of meditation.
Sometimes hallucinations , smells , sounds, can become manifest to the person who's meditating.
It's really to be dismissed, but some might find the experience to be profound as a Christian who has just witnessed the second coming of Christ!
ChieftheCef
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Now this might be what I'm talking about. Is it a geat pleasure, almost otherworldly?
ChieftheCef
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See that's on the right track but I'm not sure the feeling I'm talking about is meant to be dismissed. It may be the same thing, just a different approach to it. Last I read there was a goal of feeling it on command.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Well it can make you want to run down the halls of the zendo yelling that you're enlightened!
A good Roshi would tell you not to get to overly wrapped up about it and to just go back to the meditation hall until the bell rings.
ChieftheCef
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Then it is! Lo and behold!
Hmmm, I will somewhat forget it then. Aum. Aum. Aum. Or maybe I'll get lost in some rhythms.
I thank you, sir! And bid you, farewell!